{This blog is not affiliated with the VA. Though a Veteran, four yrs. all shore in Navy last year In-Country Vietnam, I don't work for the VA}**USN All Shore '67-'71 GMG3 Vietnam In Country '70-'71 - Independent**

In 2003 some 72% of Americans fully supported the Abandoning of the Missions and those Sent to Accomplish so extremely Quickly after 9/11!!At least some 95%, if not more as less then 1% serve them, not only still support the, just below, total lack of Sacrifice, they ran from any and all Accountability and left everything still on the table to be continually used if the political/military want was still in play in future executive/legislative wants!!

Especially for the Corporate and Wealthy Community, investors in Defense Industries, and for these, Afghanistan and Iraq, came Two Huge Tax Cuts, with more sweetheart deals to same from states and the fed!!

Ask yourself: If the Veterans Administration is so corrupt and mismanaged, as the conservative ideology, under which the seeds of are planted when they control, wants everyone to buy into as they obstruct the budgets and do extremely little after they charge same, then why does the Private sector, many problems within rarely heard about, adopt so many practices and advanced technologies developed within the VA, for free?! The VA, DoD, and in partnership with Universities and Colleges, not just Health Care are constantly in R&D and that developed that works is quickly moved into the private, for profit, sector, even as the VA is long under funded, decades, and especially during and after our wars that the few are sent into!

* * * * *President Obama 26 August 2014 Fact: "This is not just a job of government. It’s not just a job of the veterans’ organizations. Every American needs to join us in taking care of those who've taken care of us. Because only 1 percent of Americans may be fighting our wars, but 100 percent of Americans benefit from that 1 percent. A hundred percent need to be supporting our troops. A hundred percent need to be supporting our veterans. A hundred percent need to be supporting our military families."

Fact: "We’ve been able to accomplish historic increases to veterans funding. We’ve protected veterans health care from Washington politics with advanced appropriations. We’ve been able to make VA benefits available to more than 2 million veterans who didn't have them before, including more Vietnam vets who were exposed to Agent Orange. We’ve dedicated major new resources for mental health care. We’ve helped more than 1 million veterans and their families pursue their education under the Post-9/11 GI Bill."

Fact: “We are dealing with veterans, not procedures—with their problems, not ours.” —General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans Administration

Facts: Matthew Hoh{former Marine and foreign service officer in Afghanistan}: "We spend a trillion dollars a year on national security in this country.""And when you add up to the Department of Defense, Department of State, CIA, Veterans Affairs, interest on debt, the number that strikes me the most about how much we're committed financially to these wars and to our current policies is we have spent $250 billion already just on interest payments on the debt we've incurred for the Iraq and Afghan wars." 26 September 2014

Fact: "If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

Fact: "12 years also is a long time. We now have a lifetime responsibility to a generation of service members, veterans and their families." Dr. Jonathan Woodson 11 Sep. 2013: With 9/11 Came Lifetime Responsibility{two tax cuts, especially for the wealthy, came with these two recent unpaid for wars, nor the results of, DeJa-Vu all over again from the previous decades and wars from! Ignore the many issues, by those served, no need to fund!}

Fact: Sen. Bernie Sanders told Republicans: “If you can’t afford to take care of your veterans, than don’t go war. These people are bearing the brunt of what war is about, We have a moral obligation to support them.”February, 26th, 2014

Fact: “Why in 2009 were we still using paper?” VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers “When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we’ve been operating on a six month wait for over a decade.” 27 March 2013

WHY? GOOD QUESTION THOSE SERVED SHOULD ANSWER!

Bob HerbertLosing Our Way : "And then the staggering costs of these wars, which are borne by the taxpayers. I mean, one of the things that was insane was that, as we're at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration cut taxes. This has never been done in American history. The idea of cutting taxes while you're going to war is just crazy. I mean, it's madness." Bill 'Moyers and Company': Restoring an America That Has Lost its Way 10 Oct. 2014

Under two previous Executive administrations and wars from, father and son. With son and conservative congresses leading the extremely quick abandoning of the missions and those sent to accomplish after 9/11:

3/27/15 - U.S. Nerve Gas Hit Our Own Troops in Iraq"During and immediately after the first Gulf War, more than 200,000 of 700,000 U.S. troops sent to Iraq and Kuwait in January 1991 were exposed to nerve gas and other chemical agents. Though aware of this, the Department of Defense and CIA launched a campaign of lies and concocted a cover-up that continues today.""When Brown and others tried to obtain their medical records to prove their illnesses were service-related, they learned that the records had disappeared."

Add in the issues of finally recognizing in War Theater and more Veterans, by the Shinseki Veterans Administration and the Executive Administrations Cabinet, what the Country choose to ignore from our previous decades and wars of: The devastating effects on Test Vets and from PTS, Agent Orange, Homelessness, more recent the Desert Storm troops Gulf War Illnesses, Gulf War Exposures with the very recent affects from In-Theater Burn Pits and oh so so much more! Tens of Thousands of Veterans' that have been long ignored and maligned by previous VA's and the whole Country and through their representatives!

How does a Country HONOR It's Fallen, by Their Own 'Sacrifice' in Taking Care of the Brothers and Sisters They Served With!!

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Not even getting the important message out, but it'll really make the participants feel all 'patriotic' all over, like takin the little ones to a parade, but more effort then wavin a flag though unless a big flag. It's not a conservative pushed media hyped 'scandal', done that many times on same issues with no help from unless trolling for, patriotic, votes then unfunded weak legislation, caused by them and the people served, as those served 'don't care'!

Especially getting the high bracket infamous, extremely happy with the extra wealth from the two huge tax cuts 'thank you' and more since, involved in the, Poser, patriotic messages and video's of! And once Again not giving the message that should be, demanding that those served finally actually 'sacrifice' themselves as they demand the Military and Families of do!!

* * * How does a Country HONOR It's Fallen, by Their Own 'Sacrifice' in Taking Care of the Brothers and Sisters They Served With!! * * *

August 16, 2016 - Move over ice buckets, there's a new challenge rippling through social media: push ups. Twenty-two, in fact.

You knock them out, then challenge someone else to do it. Everyone from stars like John Krasinski and The Rock to a class of Texas state trooper recruits is getting involved.

The 22 Push-Up Challenge is designed to focus attention on a tragedy, reports CBS News' Jim Axelrod. For years, it was estimated that 22 veterans committed suicide each day -- 7,400 a year.

"When the statistics came out that 22 veterans a day were committing suicide it was almost unbelievable. We wanted to find out more where this number came from," said Retired Marine Don Nguyen, deputy director of 22Kill, the foundation behind the challenge.

Two summers ago, the Ice Bucket Challenge raised $115 million. But 22Kill says their primary goal is to raise awareness, not money.

Not just as to the VA but Government wide as they seek to privatize, with little or no regulation, for corporate profits all of government, keeping only administrations in the agencies so they can call them government agencies still and have someone to blame and attack for the created media hyped 'scandals', many repeated over and over!!

By the way Sally and Conservative brethren. Like most of my brothers and sisters I'm a Vet Not receiving a disability VA check, mental nor physical, but now getting Great Care through the VA, and the Caring staffs of, since retiring, through Medicare which I already paid into and pay premiums through SS monthly now, ya all owe me and the very few rest, especially from War Theaters, that!! Especially after these recent, still ongoing blowback from the policies, for corporate profit long conflicts!!

August 13, 2016 - A SHAMEFUL number of Aussie soldiers return from war zones depressed, anxious, in despair but unable to find help. Grieving families of war veterans who have taken their own lives say their loved ones might still be alive today if they’d received adequate support from authorities. >>>

Especially for the Corporate and Wealthy Community, investors in Defense Industries, and for these, Afghanistan and Iraq, came Two Huge Tax Cuts, with more sweetheart deals to same from states and the fed!! And that covers much more in the Deficits, like even paying for war policies and the results from and much more, then just the, grossly under funded thus not properly built nor properly maintained, and not conservative obstructionists pols concern, VA budgets!!

Any Governments Veterans Administration are the people served Responsibility! Not another corporate profit seeking entity off of war as now much of the privatized military has become, just look how fast and big the government funded corporate merc army/intelligence was built above all laws and caused more lasting deadly damage to the American, once proud in leadership and morals, brand on the world stage! Not socialized anything but their Responsibility to Actually Sacrifice, as it's been since they were established but promises never upheld with, in America, Congressional fixes coming mostly unfunded and piece-meal causing more problems, the way those served seem to really like it that way as they lay blame on the VA personal!!

President Obama 26 August 2014: "This is not just a job of government. It’s not just a job of the veterans’ organizations. Every American needs to join us in taking care of those who've taken care of us. Because only 1 percent of Americans may be fighting our wars, but 100 percent of Americans benefit from that 1 percent. A hundred percent need to be supporting our troops. A hundred percent need to be supporting our veterans. A hundred percent need to be supporting our military families."

The Only Executive Branch w/Cabinet In My Lifetime, as a War Theater Veteran, Finally trying to fulfill the promises and with absolutely no help from conservatives in congress nor the people served, DeJa-Vu!!!

“Why in 2009 were we still using paper?” VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers “When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we’ve been operating on a six month wait for over a decade.” 27 March 2013

"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Ahhh yes, more GOP, started long ago but growing under the Trump & Pence, recruiting for the extremist, ISIL's and others, using other religious ideologies as their, propaganda, crutch by the flag waving, Poser, patriotic amerikan 'christians'!! Placing more 'Targets' on the few who do serve and sacrifice, and those civilian's within, and outside of, the theaters of war and deadly destructive conflicts!! And they still see nothing wrong, nor do they care as their successful corporate and investor lords profits grow, with these actions and words as they continue refusing to 'sacrifice' themselves!!

* DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!! *

“It’s a very touching memorial, but the problem is there’s a cross in it. It singles out veterans of one religion, and in doing so ignored and disrespects veterans of all other religions, or no religion,” Storey said.

15 August 2016 - A public official’s tribute to America’s military veterans has stirred controversy in a New Jersey town.

Outside of Veterans Memorial Library in Roselle Park is a silhouette of a soldier kneeling at a cross. It’s become the center of controversy among residents including Gregory Storey.

“It’s a very touching memorial, but the problem is there’s a cross in it. It singles out veterans of one religion, and in doing so ignored and disrespects veterans of all other religions, or no religion,” Storey said.

The memorial — paid for by Mayor Carl Hokanson — was installed on July 29, by city workers and came as a surprise to the board that runs the library.

“The mayor is my boss, we listen to him, but it was not put through the board of trustees,” Interim Library Supervisor, Kit Rubino said.

Storey said the memorial violates the separation of church and state and contacted the American Humanist Association. read more>>>

* * * How does a Country HONOR It's Fallen, by Their Own 'Sacrifice' in Taking Care of the Brothers and Sisters They Served With!! * * *

August 13, 2016 - A SHAMEFUL number of Aussie soldiers return from war zones depressed, anxious, in despair but unable to find help.

Grieving families of war veterans who have taken their own lives say their loved ones might still be alive today if they’d received adequate support from authorities.

Thirteen families of service men and veterans have bravely spoken out to highlight the plight of military men and women at risk.

Their call for more support comes as a Sunday Herald Sun investigation reveals 41 military personnel and veterans died this year from suicide, the same as the number of Australians who were killed in Afghanistan during 13 years of war.

Each family which agreed to be part of this special report lost their sons, husbands or fathers in the past two years.

They ranged in age from 21 to 57. Most of them were in their 20s and 30s when they died.

Almost all had been deployed to overseas operations, including Iraq, East Timor, Afghanistan or served on navy ships involved in border patrol.

The concerns were backed by former Chief of Army and Soldier On chairman Peter Leahy, who said the government needed to “step up and own the problem”. read more>>>

* DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!! *

Especially for the Corporate and Wealthy Community, investors in Defense Industries, and for these, Afghanistan and Iraq, came Two Huge Tax Cuts, with more sweetheart deals to same from states and the fed!!
And that covers much more in the Deficits, like even paying for war policies and the results from and much more, then just the, grossly under funded thus not properly built nor properly maintained, and not conservative obstructionists pols concern, VA budgets!!

Any Governments Veterans Administration are the people served Responsibility! Not another corporate profit seeking entity off of war as now much of the privatized military has become, just look how fast and big the government funded corporate merc army/intelligence was built above all laws and caused more lasting deadly damage to the American, once proud in leadership and morals, brand on the world stage! Not socialized anything but their Responsibility to Actually Sacrifice, as it's been since they were established but promises never upheld with, in America, Congressional fixes coming mostly unfunded and piece-meal causing more problems, the way those served seem to really like it that way as they lay blame on the VA personal!!

Conservative ideology Worldwide: Like our long time Vietnam and since Veterans, Conservative, Nemesis, one of their experts(?), used to shape their policies, and very highly compensated: * * Sally Satel Still Selling Care for PTSD Veterans is Waste of Money * * There are plenty of others, they've got a ready stable full of go to {experts?}, and plenty of unfunded ignored and denied issues!! Not just as to the VA but Government wide as they seek to privatize, with little or no regulation, for corporate profits all of government, keeping only administrations in the agencies so they can call them government agencies still and have someone to blame and attack for the created media hyped 'scandals', many repeated over and over!!

“Why in 2009 were we still using paper?” VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers “When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we’ve been operating on a six month wait for over a decade.” 27 March 2013

* DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!! *

Sacrifice?: For Wars-'0' For Continued Blowback From Policies-'0' For Veterans Of-'0'

Most of the people served, especially the wealthy and all conservatives, the trump speaks: 2 Aug 2015 - 'I fight like hell to pay as little as possible': Donald Trump says he avoids all the tax he can.

Two Huge Tax Cuts, and more after those for them, not, 'job creators': Made Wealth off Defense War Investments, like the government funded private for profit merc army and intelligence arm -$$$+++ Making Wealth off Continued Blowback From the Policies-$$$+++ Wants To Make Wealth off All Privatized VA-$$$+++

"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Trying to get back on track, though still extremely short changed, as to Veterans!

American vets aren't the only ones grossly short changed, for decades and wars from, by those they've served, especially from wars and conservative administrations as well as conservative powers in congresses or parliaments! Through the conservative ideology of those they hire to represent in the want to privatize, continuing the rising returns on investments, on wars especially!

The Brits and other advanced economies do same especially under conservative controls and with the blessings of those served!

* DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!! *

08/8/2016 - The Veterans Affairs office in Brandon will be open again in a matter of months, the federal government will announce Tuesday.Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr will be in Brandon Tuesday for the fourth such announcement he's delivered since June as the Liberals make good on an election pledge to reopen all nine veterans affairs offices closed in 2014 by the former government in a move to reduce spending.

"It's great," said Martin Haller, who served in the Canadian Forces in Haiti, Kosovo and Afghanistan. "It's time. We were right."

Haller was among the most vocal veterans fighting the Brandon closure, organizing local protests and travelling to Ottawa. The office is expected to be located in the same place it was before it closed in January 2014.

The federal government announced in its March budget it would spend $5.6 billion over six years to enhance services to veterans, including reopening the offices and improving disability awards for wounded soldiers.

Haller said since the closure veterans have struggled to access services and get help navigating a complex system for disability support. The Brandon office served about 2,000 clients with five full-time staff. read more>>>

* * * How does a Country HONOR It's Fallen, by Their Own 'Sacrifice' in Taking Care of the Brothers and Sisters They Served With!! * * *

Sunday, July 31, 2016

@realDonaldTrump #madealotofsacrifices Sacrifice?: For Wars-'0' For Blowback From Policies-'0' For Veterans Of-'0'

Made Wealth off Defense War Investments-$$$+++ Making Wealth off Blowback From the Policies-$$$+++ Wants To Make Wealth off All Privatized VA-$$$+++

"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

“We are dealing with veterans, not procedures—with their problems, not ours.” —General Omar Bradley, First Administrator of the Veterans Administration

Chris Hayes : "If you can run a deficit to go to war, you can run a deficit to take care of the people who fought it" In response to Republican, long ago lost as the party of Lincoln and not just as to us Veterans, opposition to expanding Veterans' benefits on fiscal grounds

Sen. Bernie Sanders told Conservatives: “If you can’t afford to take care of your veterans, than don’t go war. These people are bearing the brunt of what war is about, We have a moral obligation to support them.” February, 26th, 2014

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Rep Miller, poser patriot trolling for votes, loves holding hearings. Often on same issues as in past and always with no Congressional, nor People Served represented, help in actually addressing, but for the media hyped 'scandals' and attacks on Veterans Administration personal!

All he and the rest of Congress need do is look in the Congressional records, they do have tax payer paid staff, to find All the answers needed, especially as to obstruction, underfunding and underbuilt as well as under maintained a responsibility of Congress in All Government agencies and more!!

'Make America Great Again' {?}

What 'again' are they talking about!!

The people are disenfranchised, especially conservatives, and are showing it, reason for a Trump?

Most of the people served, especially wealthy and all conservatives, the trump speaks: 2 Aug 2015 - 'I fight like hell to pay as little as possible': Donald Trump says he avoids all the tax he can.

What 'disenfranchisement' are they experiencing, Especially conservatives!!

In my lifetime, and especially as a Veteran of a War Theater, last year of a four year tour, the Conservative ideology, often the extremist of, have controlled the Executive branch, most terms, thus the Veterans Administration!

“Why in 2009 were we still using paper?” VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers “When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we’ve been operating on a six month wait for over a decade.” 27 March 2013

July 26, 2016 - The chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Veterans Affairs has broadened his request for information on two former soldiers involved in mass shootings in Texas and Louisiana.

In a letter Tuesday to the secretary of Veterans Affairs, Florida Rep. Jeff Miller requested a briefing on all VA services received by Army reservist Micah Johnson, who shot and killed five Dallas cops and wounded nine other law enforcement officers in a July 7 attack on a peaceful downtown protest rally.

Miller asked for similar records last week on Gavin Long, the former Marine and Iraq war veteran who killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 17.

The attacks followed protests sparked by the deaths of two black men — Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Minnesota — by white police officers.

The conservative ideology: Like our long time Veterans Conservative Nemesis, one of their experts(?), used to shape their policies, and very highly compensated: * Sally Satel Still Selling Care for PTSD Veterans is Waste of Money * There are plenty of others, they've got a ready stable full of go to {experts?}, and plenty of unfunded ignored and denied issues!!

In my lifetime, and especially as a Veteran of a War Theater, the Conservative ideology have control the legislative powers of Congress, either directly in one or both Houses of or with the Obstructive filibuster numbers in at least one while controlling the other or in both if minority of! And in this century a number of States have fallen under same control!

July 24 2016 - Trump is blaming Obama for police shootings. But seven years ago Republicans halted a federal study that sought to detect potential radicalization by veterans. read more>>>

And especially in recent times, like since the turn of this Century, they have not only maintained that legislative control in the Federal Government, while not governing, they have gained control of even more States, both Executively and Legislatively!!

What is or is not done doesn't 'Not' affect one because they scream they're 'conservative' and not now a dirty word 'liberal' everything done or not done or legislatively watered down affects everybody, and often if possible needs to be undone, extremist of costing great in time and monies, meanwhile causing great damage or harm to the masses, and even the planet, no matter ideology!!

The present Obama Administration has been under extremist attacks since day one, often Dems are helping in those attacks, across the board. But these attacks on as to the media hyped, conservatives, 'scandals' of the VA, many others, this entire Administration has been fighting, while grossly obstructed again as to funding, to Finally Build what the People Served Promised and Yet Have Delivered!! DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Starting with Sec. Shinseki with a conservative target on him and Thankfully continuing under Sec. MacDonald, after conservatives finally hit the mark on that target!!

From trying to build a system, grossly underfunded or unfunded congressional legislation passed in trolling for them, Poser, patriotic votes, in integrating these younger vets of two more, profit generating wars and long occupations, to addressing long ignored or outright denied, by those served, veterans issues!! All on, grossly under funded and under built and under maintained, mostly borrowed monies with interest, i.e. deficits!!

Chris Hayes : "If you can run a deficit to go to war, you can run a deficit to take care of the people who fought it" In response to Republican, long ago lost as the party of Lincoln and not just as to us Veterans, opposition to expanding Veterans' benefits on fiscal grounds.

Sen. Bernie Sanders told Conservatives: “If you can’t afford to take care of your veterans, than don’t go war. These people are bearing the brunt of what war is about, We have a moral obligation to support them.” February, 26th, 2014

So look in the mirrors, especially conservatives, you've always had that 'again' the trump is yelling and you're screaming about!!!

Monday, July 18, 2016

Most of the people served, especially wealthy and all conservatives, the trump speaks: 2 Aug 2015 - 'I fight like hell to pay as little as possible': Donald Trump says he avoids all the tax he can.

* DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!! *

In the highlighted, just below, the "acted slowly and inefficiently" is one of many built into the Government, Private, Contractors business plan and scheme. As to Military and Veterans of and especially War just look at the long time practices in the Defense Contractor often, as to present times, with no-bid awards and the reach back for much more funding to accomplish signed contracts. Or look at what it costs to quickly build a private merc army, quickly becoming another intelligence gathering, private, government agency at private contractor costs, traded on Wall Street. All that did, as to long occupations in two more deadly destructive wars, is create more blowback, that spread and grew, pointed at our Military and since much more! Create problems, Congressional representatives, mostly conservative, in need of easy campaign donations and more while in government, extremely well paid jobs when they leave government, work as already established washington lobbying firms or starting their own quick build to wealth lobbying firms, quickly hold hearings blaming VA personal, who the private contractors rebuff at every turn with no consequences, with Media and People served quickly joining the growing beating drums of, never looking at the extremely costly private business sector charged with performing on contracts awarded!! Most, if not all, of Government contractors are unknown, included by the media looking for that next 'scandal' to hype. Unless one is astute enough to follow Government, the citizens, business or know where to look. Why, because they are rarely, if ever, called as, conservatives, bring forth another media hyped 'scandal' that is actually created by them and the people served and creates other needed, media hyped, 'scandals', with help from the government private contractors actions and real intentions!!

July 17, 2016 - Officials from the Alaska Veterans Administration (VA) said their agency is taking over services previously performed by contractor TriWest Healthcare Alliance. Local veterans who attended a June 30 public meeting hosted by acting VA Director Dr. Linda Boyle were informed that VA staff would soon begin scheduling their appointments at non-VA medical clinics, a job previously done by TriWest staff whom veterans claimed acted slowly and inefficiently.

Phoenix, Arizona-based TriWest is a private company formed in 1996 to manage veteran medical care services in many western states, which included Alaska after an expansion in 2003. Following the $10 million settlement of a US Justice Department lawsuit against the company in September 2011 — in which whistleblowers claimed TriWest overbilled the VA’s TRICARE health plan for the medical services it arranged — TriWest lost its service contract with the Department of Defense to United Health Care in July 2012. In 2013, the Department of Veteran Affairs awarded TriWest a new $4.3 billion, five-year contract to arrange medical services for veterans in 28 states, including Alaska.

At previous VA public meetings at Kenai Peninsula College, local veterans said geography was among the contractor’s problems. Calls from veterans trying to schedule appointments through TriWest were handled by call centers around the country, with none in Alaska.

Although its contract with the VA gives TriWest operators 5 days to make medical appointments for veterans, according to VA representative Cindy Massey, some veterans at public meetings have said they’ve been waiting longer. Veterans at the June 30 meeting reported stories in which they’d gone for supposedly-scheduled appointments to providers who had no record of an appointment having been made, and of appointments scheduled for central peninsula veterans at early morning hours in far-away places such as Homer and Fairbanks. read more>>>

“Why in 2009 were we still using paper?” VA Assistant Secretary Tommy Sowers “When we came in, there was no plan to change that; we’ve been operating on a six month wait for over a decade.” 27 March 2013

"If military action is worth our troops’ blood, it should be worth our treasure, too — not just in the abstract, but in the form of a specific ante by every American." -Andrew Rosenthal 10 Feb. 2013

Smaller Government only means the numbers in direct line of attack, by conservatives, for any and all problems! Smaller Government would be a privatized for corporate profit, growing individual fee's added after control established, with no regulation, traded on Wall Street especially for the wealthy. Continuing building War wealth long after every, undeclared by Congress, invasion and occupation, the deadlier and destructive the greater investment wealth brought to no tax off shore bank vaults!!

Chris Hayes : "If you can run a deficit to go to war, you can run a deficit to take care of the people who fought it" In response to Republican, long ago lost as the party of Lincoln and not just as to us Veterans, opposition to expanding Veterans' benefits on fiscal grounds

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

This will change, along with so many plain ignored or outright denied issues, for decades and into these present long wars and occupations, as soon as Conservatives can privatize, for corporate profit with little to no regulation, more of the people served responsibility and duty or the whole agency! Except for an administrative section in Washington, gotta have someone to attack and blame for them conservative led media hyped 'scandals', resulting from the decades of obstruction and intentional underfunding, as those served still haven't 'sacrificed'!

June 20, 2016 - A prominent conservative group hopes to derail a congressional effort to give wounded veterans access to fertility services through the VA, saying it could lead to human cloning and three-parent embryos.

The Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council sent an email last week to congressional staff working on the final Military Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations bill, voicing opposition to a provision that would require the Veterans Affairs Department to cover fertility services for former troops with injuries that cause infertility.

In the email, an FRC representative called the language in the Senate bill, penned by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., “terrible,” adding that it was "broad enough to cover reproductive technologies from IVF to human cloning to 3-parent embryos.”

“It does not have any restrictions on whether treatment would include the creation of human embryos, the storage of or freezing of human embryos or whether and how embryos that are left over would be destroyed,” according to the correspondence.

Roughly 1,800 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans received injuries to their groins, genitalia or spinal cords that make it difficult to have children without medical assistance, and while the Defense Department provides some advanced fertility treatments to these service members while they are on active duty, the VA is barred by law from doing so. read more>>>

Murray, a longtime member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, tried twice to force a vote that would have restored $38 million in funding for the program. Both times her move was blocked by Arizona Sen. John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. read more>>>

Most of the people served, especially wealthy and all conservatives, the trump speaks: 2 Aug 2015 - 'I fight like hell to pay as little as possible': Donald Trump says he avoids all the tax he can.

* DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!! *

Saturday, June 11, 2016

DeJa-Vu: “With no shared sacrifices being asked of civilians after Sept. 11", Decades and War From, All Over Again!!

Along with even more as to the, Poser, patriots served. The whole 21st century 'support the troops', so far, DeJa-Vu the old is the new all over again:

A quarter of active-duty and reserve families are seeking food assistance, according to program officials. The program will consist of a mobile food pantry offering biweekly food assistance in the months of June and July, according to a press release.

Jun 10, 2016 - Hungry Heroes aims to provide combat veterans and military families with food assistance.
The program kicked off Wednesday and is a collaborative effort by area food bank Second Harvest of South Georgia, Southeastern Credit Union and the Armed Forces Financial Network.
A quarter of active-duty and reserve families are seeking food assistance, according to program officials. The program will consist of a mobile food pantry offering biweekly food assistance in the months of June and July, according to a press release. read more>>>

And a certain Senator representing the people served has the gall to actually 'praise' the program carried out because he, and the conservative congresses as well as staffs of, aren't doing the jobs hired and charged to do!

Sen. Johnny Isakson made an official statement regarding the program.
“As chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, I am incredibly proud of the collaboration by Second Harvest of South Georgia and Southeastern Credit Union to help support our service members, veterans and their families in South Georgia,” Isakson said. “The Hungry Heroes program offers a helping hand to those who need it most, and I thank all who have given their time, energy or donations in support of such a great cause. Our service members and their families have given their all in defense of this nation, and we should always do everything we can to give back.”

Most of the people served, especially wealthy and all conservatives, the trump speaks: 2 Aug 2015 - 'I fight like hell to pay as little as possible': Donald Trump says he avoids all the tax he can.

10 June 2016 - Update: Newly released court documents reveal: "As part of his continuing scheme to raise money for his business, Project 22 and his non-profit organization, Freedom K-9 Rehab, Wolfe claims to be a Wounded Warrior Veteran of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria Wars as a dog handler with PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury. He has appeared in public on several occasions telling his story and has received money from different organizations for himself and his businesses." According to the Veterans Administration, this Eric Wolfe is not a veteran and has never served.

PHOENIX - 1o June 2016 - A Tempe man is accused of telling a tall tale about his supposed military service to obtain veteran status for his driver's license and vehicle plates.

The Arizona Department of Transportation says the agency's detectives have arrested 45-year-old Eric Wolfe on suspicion of forgery and using falsified documents.

Wolfe was booked Tuesday into the custody of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. The Maricopa County Attorney's Office filed a direct complaint against Wolfe for three felony counts of forgery and possessing a forged instrument. Wolfe's initial court appearance was Thursday. read more>>>

Most of the people served, especially wealthy and all conservatives, the trump speaks: 2 Aug 2015 - 'I fight like hell to pay as little as possible': Donald Trump says he avoids all the tax he can.

Along with even more as to the, Poser, patriots served. The whole 21st century 'support the troops', so far, DeJa-Vu the old is the new all over again:

A quarter of active-duty and reserve families are seeking food assistance, according to program officials. The program will consist of a mobile food pantry offering biweekly food assistance in the months of June and July, according to a press release.

Jun 10, 2016 - Hungry Heroes aims to provide combat veterans and military families with food assistance.
The program kicked off Wednesday and is a collaborative effort by area food bank Second Harvest of South Georgia, Southeastern Credit Union and the Armed Forces Financial Network.
A quarter of active-duty and reserve families are seeking food assistance, according to program officials. The program will consist of a mobile food pantry offering biweekly food assistance in the months of June and July, according to a press release. read more>>>

And a certain Senator representing the people served has the gall to actually 'praise' the program carried out because he, and the conservative congresses as well as staffs of, aren't doing the jobs hired and charged to do!

Sen. Johnny Isakson made an official statement regarding the program.
“As chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, I am incredibly proud of the collaboration by Second Harvest of South Georgia and Southeastern Credit Union to help support our service members, veterans and their families in South Georgia,” Isakson said. “The Hungry Heroes program offers a helping hand to those who need it most, and I thank all who have given their time, energy or donations in support of such a great cause. Our service members and their families have given their all in defense of this nation, and we should always do everything we can to give back.”

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